The Republican journal., 1887-11-10

H. l.: noted 90: rs industry and is ono Of tho
hardest working of newspaper men He
is good talkcr and during his visit
to tao trouulous districts of Ire
land this s.in.lcr he made some speeches
to the people. lfo is an enthusiast on tho
tariff, and h. believes think, that tho mis-.
slon OF LIS l:to is to keep up protection Ho
has wife who is fully as bright as himself,
who can mako u mans salary at newspaper
correspondence any day, and who is at tho
Same time an accomplished society woman
Portcr's father was well to do country gen
tlcman, and he had somewhat the same tastes
as Porter, in that he liked good living and
lots Of it. Ho was not u worker, however,
like his son, and the result was that when
Robert began to reach tho years of manhood
tho family exchcquer had become 60 reduced
that Porter saw that he would have to make
his own way il tho world. 1t was at this
time that he read tho life OF Gen. Grant, and
from it ho decided that tho country which
could turn out such q product from Il tanners
son ought to give chance to the offspring
of an English gentleman. He camc to Amer
lea with tho idea Of being farmer, drifted
into newspaper work, became an assistant on
tho census commission and was finally ap-
pointed one OF the commissioners to revise
Cuc III 1AC Is nov secretary OIL INC tAIl1cr-
lean Protective Tariff league, and his new
paper will undoubtcdi ! be run i'll the interest
Of protection
1t will also DO Republican, for Porter is a
Republican, and Frank Hatton would be lost
anywhere but in the Republican party Hat
ton is a good newspaper man. He is man
of strong convictions and he believes in push
in journalism. lie ";ill not be at all back
ward i'll his newspaper work, and it will be
strange il this newspaper, with two such
men ut tho head, docs not succeed. Hatton
is also yolln:, man. He is straight, dark,
fine looking, and he he's jaw which expresses
determination. &c is good fellow, and he
has had some newspaper experience on The
Burlington Hawlcyt, cs editor Of The Ma
tional Republican lid, since he has left tho
postmaster gencralship, Us editor of Tho Chi
cago Mail.
Washington has been the newspaper train
ing school for many of tho leading editors of
the United States. A Washington cor
respondent has q position second only to that
of the managing: editor of Il paper, and every
year managing editors are taken from hero
and promoted to the head of the papers they
represent. Jo2cph lulitZcr, editor of The
New York World, was once Washington
correspondent, and y hitelaw Reid, tho cd
itor of Tho New y ol,l Tribune, represented
The Cincinnati Gazette hero for years. He
wrote letters over the signature of agate"
and there is low in The Commercial Gazette
Office an old DC X ut which he used to work.
j. d. AcCullou:,,h, editor of The st. Louis
Globc-l Democrat, was considered one of tho
brightest newspaper men at Washington dur
ing the days Of Andrew johnson, and James
Gordon I:cnn. tt wrote letters from Washing
ton before he tstaJi..::.cd The Herald. News
paper work at " ashington increases i'll volume
every year, and more than 100 correspond
ents have now admission to the press gal
lery There are, ell told, Isupposc, 800 men
who do newspaper work at Washington, and
the 100 correspondents above spoken of make
their entire living by it. Ono of the bright
est of the correspondents who havc been
added to the corps within the past few years
is John S. Shrivcr, Of The Baltimore Amcri-
can, who is noted for his White House Cos
sip. He delights i'll giving his readers graphic